Not Impressed with WYSIWYG Writer and Blogspot

So much for WYSIWYG Writer!! Can't publish my photos after I get them placed within the text where I want them. So here I am back to my regular form of publishing, checking the page and moving things and re-publishing, and re-publishing.



I had another weekend of great photo ops in Auburn and surrounding areas. This must have been the weekend for painted turtles to mate or something. I saw one in Cascade park area and another on Townline Road in Sennett, NY. They were both in their respective roadways. After checking them out and taking pics, they were moved out of the road.



Isn't this a great little dragonfly?! Actually, there are two different ones.





This couple oared by us while we were walking the trail by the inlet/outlet (can't remember which it is) on Sunday afternoon. We took John's dad along with us on this trip. He seemed to enjoy getting out for a little while to someplace different.



We stopped for ice cream just outside Moravia. The ice cream was great and I enjoyed some sights while there, but the pesky flies I could have done without quite nicely!









This started out as a shot of the sunset when I came over the hill from Moravia toward Niles. I did a little photo manipulation and turned it into a fake lake with the sunset in the background.



See you in a few days. Gotta go get some stuff ready for a yard sale this weekend.

Finding the Beauty

Since I can't go to Costa Rica for awhile, I have to find some beauty in this ccccccold area of Upstate New York. I looked out my window a little while ago and could see the beginnings of the sunset and decided to brave the cold to go outside and capture it with my camera. It wasn't nearly as cold as it was on Sunday, luckily. I can't wait to complain of the heat!

Photos and Paintings

A few weeks ago, I captured some images on my way to John's house in Auburn. One shows a prism in the sky, taken from the parking lot of the Ford garage in Ithaca. I took the sunset pics between Genoa and Scipio Center. It took me at least a half hour longer to get to Auburn because of my frequent stops to take pictures. The sky and the clouds fascinate me.




I spent this past weekend with John and his family, beginning Thanksgiving day. I went to John's house and he and his two sons and I went to John's brother's house in Fairport to have dinner with a houseful of relatives. It was very nice. The following day was bright and sunny, so we took some of John's art collection outdoors to get photos of them because I didn't want to have to use the flash because it washes out parts of the pictures. The only problem with that is the sun sparkled on the paintings and makes them look like there are small white spots on them.

Sunday, we drove around and found some cool scenes to capture. I am still learning about the camera. I have found that some of the ones that look fantastic on the camera screen don't translate as well onto the computer screen and also don't print as well as they look on the camera. I hope to get better with trial and error--in addition to reading. I think the lighting has a lot to do with it. I hope you can see the "two faces in the water" in the pictures posted here. I just wanted to take a picture of the water in the creek; but the lighting and shadows ended up forming a "sleepy-eyed jaguar" and also a man's face to the left and kind of tucked into the jaguar face. I often "see faces" (Oooooooo Oooo Ooooooooooooooooo!) in other images and textures.


This next picture is at 12X optical zoom. For some reason, the pictures I take at extreme zoom look hazy to me. Maybe it is the filters on the camera that cause it. I will try taking the filters off next time. These other pictures were taken around Owasco area. Hope you enjoy looking at them. Maybe tomorrow I will post some more art by John's artist friend "Jak WRobel".